{"id":41,"count":1,"description":"Orator, writer, performer, musician and visual artist Bocar Niang (Senegal, 1987) comes from a family of griots \u2014 travelling poets and storytellers that preserve and pass on the oral traditions of communities in certain parts of Africa, connecting people with their own experiences. He holds a Master\u2019s degree in Arts and Culture from the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar and from the \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019Arts de Paris-Cergy. Founder of the Mus\u00e9e Griot in Senegal and its branches in France, he is also artistic director of the Tamba Jeunes Talents Festival in Senegal since 2008 and of the Nekkalante Festival in France since 2018. His multidisciplinary work \u2014combining orality, installation, writing, sculpture, film, video and music\u2014 is based on collecting stories and events, which he then translates into oral performances, sound recordings, texts or sculptural installations. It has been presented, among others, at the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Ricard, Biennale de Dakar, Biennale de Cenon, Ygrec-Ensapc, Laboratoires d\u2019Aubervillers and the Mus\u00e9e Th\u00e9odore Monod in Dakar.\u00a0","link":"https:\/\/www.contradizioni.it\/en\/authors\/bocar-niang-en\/","name":"Bocar Niang","slug":"bocar-niang-en","taxonomy":"autori","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contradizioni.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/autori\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contradizioni.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/autori"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contradizioni.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/autori"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contradizioni.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?autori=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}